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Curriculum Studies in Canada
Present Preoccupations
Anne M. Phelan (Edited by), William F. Pinar (Edited by)
9781487551711
Paperback / softback, published 30 May 2024
288 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.4 kg
The largest specialization in faculties of education in Canada is curriculum studies. Curriculum Studies in Canada represents the present preoccupations of curriculum scholars in Canada. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributors engage with significant themes, among them ongoing efforts at justice for Indigenous Peoples, the continuing arrival of immigrants and refugees, Canada’s complex relationship to the United States, and issues related to the climate crisis. Addressing such realities through the field of curriculum studies and the school curriculum is critical at this historical conjuncture given the complex and shifting intersections of local and global dynamics restricting education. To this end, contributing scholars serve as intellectual activists to address the critical need for understanding curriculum responsive to the vexed relations among schools, nation-building, social reconstruction, and identity development. Their activism yields more sophisticated understandings of what it means to be educated in Canada. Contributors trace the legacy of their work and reflect on their present scholarly preoccupations in light of their past endeavours. In doing so, Curriculum Studies in Canada offers an invitation to readers: to study, remember, dialogue, and navigate an uncertain world with them.
Preface Introduction: Curriculum Studies in Canada 1. Storying Curriculum as International Text 2. Schooling for Building Just Peace: Comparative and Canadian Perspectives on Facing Difference, Conflict, and Violence in Education 3. Beauty in the Shadows: Curriculum Change and the New BC School Science Curriculum 4. Indigenous Students and Settler Teachers Caught in the Double Bind of Settler Schooling 5. Questions of Witnessing: Historical, Contemplative/Nondual, and Ecological 6. From Goose Feather Pen to Keyboard: Does the School Form Still Have Its Relevance in the Contemporary World? 7. The Curricular Landscapes of Sex Education: Curriculum-as-Checklist Meets the Queer Curriculum Practices of LGBTQ+ Youth 8. Which Story of the Canadian Experience Should We Tell Our Young People? 9. Unavoidable Middles: Dilatory Methods of Reading and Comics Creation in Teacher Education 10. Reconstructing Curriculum Studies in Canada: Life Writing, Settler Colonialism, Truth, and then Reconciliation 11. Early Childhood Curriculum Studies: An Intellectual Engagement 12. The Radical Pedagogy of Climate Striking in a Petroculture 13. Disquieting Returns Epilogue: Curriculum Studies in the Shadowlands List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
William F. Pinar
Kumari Beck
Kathy Bickmore
David Blades
Susan Dion
Claudia Eppert
Clermont Gauthier
Jen Gilbert
Jocelyn Létourneau
David Lewkowich
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Jackie Seidel, Sidrah Anees, Emily Blackmore, and Kelsey MacKenzie
Teresa Strong-Wilson
Anne M. Phelan
Index